Community

Command Prompt, Inc. is an avid supporter of the PostgreSQL community. As a part of our ever expanding team, we also employ the following known contributors to the PostgreSQL project:

• Alexey Klyukin - PLphp
  
  
• Alvaro Herrera - Committer, fixed CLUSTER, worked on Savepoints, added shared row locking, added shared dependency tracking, integrated autovacuum into the backend, and other minutia.
  Official Position: PostgreSQL Chile Regional Contact
  
  
• Andrei Kovalevski - ODBCng, PostgreSQL Win32 fixes
  
  
• Aurynn Shaw - Community Liason, LedgerSMB contributor and committer. Also helps manage the PostgreSQL Buildfarm.
  
  
• Andrew Sullivan - PostgreSQL Fundraising group, Co-Organized PostgreSQL Anniversary, participated in Slony architecture development. Is also considered an IETFer (http://www.ietf.org/)
  
  
• Devrim Gündüz - Coordinates RPM maintenance, Website maintenance, Fedora Linux Extras packager, Slony contributor, PostGIS contributor, and PlanetPostgreSQL project leader.
  Official Position: President PostgreSQL Turkey
  
  
• Joshua D. Drake - Pgfoundry admin, contributes to docs, submitted patches for contrib, jabber.postgresql.org administrator, recognized PostgreSQL writer including Practical PostgreSQL and many trade articles.
  Official Position: PostgreSQL.Org Fund Raising Contact
  SPI Liason, PostgreSQL Fundraising Group
  Director, Software in the Public Interest.
  Co-Founder, President and Director, United States PostgreSQL Association
  

We have sponsored, contributed to or developed several Open Source projects for the community including:

• plPerlNG - This is now in PostgreSQL Core.
  
• plPHP - The world's most popular web language is now available to write functions and procedures in PostgreSQL.
  
• pgManage - A retired project.
  
• ODBCng - A fast, compliant, open source ODBC driver developed from scratch.
  
• PostgreSQL YUM/RPM project.
  
• PostgreSQL Buildfarm - We have taken over management of the Buildfarm.
  

Further we have sponsored the following PostgreSQL Trade Shows:

• OSCON 2005 - Booth organizer
  
• OSCON 2006 - Booth organizer
  
• FISL 2006
  
• LWE Boston 2006
  
• PostgreSQL Anniversary
  
• LWE San Francisco 2006
  
• OSCON 2007 - Booth and PgDay organizer
  
• PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007 - Organizer
  
• Southern California Linux Expo 2007 - Booth Organizer, launched LAPUG.
  
• PostgreSQL Conference East 2008 - Organizer
  

We support the PostgreSQL community through the above as well as hosting the following:

• PostgreSQL mail archives
  
• PostgreSQL Web trac
  
• PostgreSQL Buildfarm
  
• The PostgreSQL jabber server, jabber.postgresql.org
  
• The PostgreSQL search
  
• Practical PostgreSQL